budget deficit

The real story of the former McGuinty era

Charlie Gillis on Premier Dad’s financials

The incredible shrinking conservative deficit

Emphasis on ‘incredible,’ says Stephen Gordon

Alberta’s not-so-renewable revenue

Colby Cosh on spending Alberta’s oil cash

Starving the beast: What Canadian Conservatives can teach Republicans

Stephen Gordon on the fiscal cliff and Harper’s quiet, and more successful, strategy

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Conservatives unlikely to meet deficit targets

Watchdog sees one in 10 chance government will keep balanced budget promise

The Commons: Does anyone here know how to balance a cheque book?

In this House nothing can be said to be certain, except aspersions and taxes

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‘These are the choices we’ve made’

Seems Mr. Ignatieff’s performance at QP yesterday was a warm up for today’s speech in Mississauga.

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‘The budget is not structurally balanced’

Kevin Page issues his latest report.

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Idea alert

The separatists kindly suggest a way out of deficit.

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Tax increase, spending cut or neither?

An interesting two sentence dispatch from Reuters this hour.

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The Commons: Private peace, public war

While Harper and Ignatieff enjoyed a “productive” meeting, things in the House were a bit less civil

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It is sometimes worth paying QP some attention

There is apparently some lament—from no less than the Prime Minister even— that the Liberals didn’t use Question Period this afternoon to follow up Michael Ignatieff’s announcement this morning. Funny thing is, they did.